Matt Slick has questions. Questions his Masters in Divinity didn't equip him to figure out for himself (which makes me think that Westminster Theological Seminary is kind of crap).

How would you define atheism?

It is the position that does not hold the belief that the proposition 'there exists at least one god' is true.

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Frankly, so much of the rhetoric, this antireligious rhetoric from the likes of Richard Dawkins and so forth, is just wildly unconsciously and uncritically ethnocentric. Underlying these critiques and it’s quite homogenous, Daniel Dennett should know better, is the frankly, uncritical and uninformed classification of Buddhism as a religion. That if ( Read more... )

News story:

* Ariane Sherine
* guardian.co.uk,
* Tuesday October 21 2008 07.00 BST

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I read that title with excitement. I was going to read and comment on the rest of Genesis today, but it is a little too busy at work to get into it, maybe I'll do that later.

However, the Intelligent Design blog, Uncommon Descent posted this little doozy today. It is about reformed epistemology, which essentially holds that belief in God is a ' ( Read more... )

So PZ Myers, atheist prince, went to an early screening of Expelled. Expelled is a propaganda film that tries to draw a straight line from Darwin through evolution up to atheism and directly to Nazism and Communism (yep). The premise being that the EVIL ATHEIST SCIENTISM CONSPIRACY (no doubt in cahoots with the Islamist fascists) are suppressing ( Read more... )

What if the cosmos is all that there is?I see questions, and am asked them too, which are some kind of variety on the following theme. A lot of the time, the answers I've seen seem to miss the point the questioner was trying to get across, so I thought I'd try and get to the heart of them here as a break from job hunting. I've had a few requests ( Read more... )

I watched a debate between Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach recently. The subject was 'Is there a God?', Rabbi Boteach unfortunately had neglected to prepare an argument so instead he just attacked the scholarship of one of Hitchens' books and even the Rabbi who was moderating the debate was forced to step in from time to time to ( Read more... )

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This weekend I happened upon a rather unusual opinion. Given that it was held by intelligent and studious people, I thought it warranted further investigation since it ran counter to my own experience. I had seen the opinion before, in various guises, and have never seen it supported by any actual evidence. The opinion, as hinted at in the ( Read more... )

It's an old question of morality, but I'm going to give it some spin. Here is the basic scenario ( Read more... )